Viva Verdi: Overtures and Preludes

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This is a particularly happy contribution to the Verdi bicentenary. The orchestra as been breastfed on the music and the conductor brings that little extra bit of telling exuberance to proceedings...the... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2013 More…

Release Date: 21st Jan 2013
Catalogue No: 4783559
Label: Decca
Length: 73 minutes

Excerpt, Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani

Work length8:47

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Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2012-06-11
Recording Venue: Auditorium di Milano, Milan

Sinfonia

Track length8:47

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Excerpt, Verdi: Alzira

Work length6:09

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Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2012-06-11
Recording Venue: Auditorium di Milano, Milan

Overture (Sinfonia)

Track length6:09

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Verdi: La traviata / Act 1

Work length3:47

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Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2012-06-11
Recording Venue: Auditorium di Milano, Milan

Prelude, Act 1

Track length3:47

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Excerpt, Verdi: Il Corsaro

Work length2:45

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Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2012-06-11
Recording Venue: Auditorium di Milano, Milan

Prelude

Track length2:45

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Excerpt, Verdi: Nabucco

Work length7:01

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Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2012-06-11
Recording Venue: Auditorium di Milano, Milan

Overture

Track length7:01

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Excerpt, Verdi: Jérusalem

Work length4:36

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Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2012-06-11
Recording Venue: Auditorium di Milano, Milan

Overture (Introduction)

Track length4:36

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Verdi: Jérusalem / Act 3

Work length19:15

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Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2012-06-11
Recording Venue: Auditorium di Milano, Milan

Air de Ballet No. 1 - Pas de Quatre

Track length6:12

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Air de Ballet No. 2 - Pas de Deux

Track length4:59

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Air de Ballet No. 3 - Pas Solo

Track length5:41

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Airs de Ballet No. 4 Pas d'ensemble: Allegro

Track length2:23

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Excerpt, Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco

Work length7:12

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Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2012-06-11
Recording Venue: Auditorium di Milano, Milan

Overture

Track length7:12

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Excerpt, Verdi: Aida

Work length3:42

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Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2012-06-11
Recording Venue: Auditorium di Milano, Milan

Preludio

Track length3:42

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Excerpt, Verdi: Macbeth

Work length3:20

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Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2012-06-11
Recording Venue: Auditorium di Milano, Milan

Overture (Preludio)

Track length3:20

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Excerpt, Verdi: La forza del destino

Work length7:13

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Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2012-06-11
Recording Venue: Auditorium di Milano, Milan

Sinfonia

Track length7:13

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Winner of the 2012 ECHO Award for “Conductor of the Year” and one of the world’s most respected maestros, Riccardo Chailly celebrates Verdi’s bicentenary year – and his own 60th birthday – in 2013 with a disc of overtures, preludes and ballet movements from some of the composer’s best-loved operas.

Adding that extra touch of authenticity, the works are performed by the Filarmonica della Scala – the opera house with which Verdi himself was most closely associated and where Chailly launched his own conducting career, based in the city where Verdi died and Chailly was born.

Long associated with the Filarmonica della Scala, Chailly has previously recorded four Decca albums with them (including discs of Rossini overtures and cantatas), while his Verdi recordings for Decca include the Messa solenne and other rare sacred works, a disc of Verdi Discoveries and a complete Rigoletto starring the late Luciano Pavarotti.

Bringing together a trio of Italian greats – a world-famous composer, a fine orchestra and a first-class conductor – this set will be one of the highlights of Decca’s new releases for the Verdi bicentenary year.

Reviews

May 2013

This is a particularly happy contribution to the Verdi bicentenary. The orchestra as been breastfed on the music and the conductor brings that little extra bit of telling exuberance to proceedings...the playing simply fizzes.

April 2013

Chailly delivers thrilling - even electrifying performances of these Verdi overtures.

10th February 2013

Chailly and the orchestra of La Scala, Milan, are surely a Verdian match made in heaven, but we have had few chances to experience them together in this composer on disc...Dynamic rhythmic momentum and prima donna-like woodwind solos make mini operas of even the early “symphonies” from Nabucco, Alzira and Giovanna d’Arco...It’s hard to imagine this music better played or conducted than here.

28th February 2013

Even though they are all standalone orchestral items, there's nothing dutiful about any of them; Chailly gives them a real sense of theatre. Impending drama infuses the opening pages of the Vespri Siciliani overture; you get the feeling of been plunged straight into the maelstrom with Il Corsaro; and the orchestra shows off its mettle in La Forza del Destino.

Viva Verdi

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